This week, a man loves a woman whose brother loves his daughter while his wife is chatting with their architect who is also in love with a woman and… why is everyone drooling over that skyscraper?
Penelope ‘Nep’ Newbold Carole Lombard Bill Hanaway Ricardo Cortez Dr. Karl Bemis Paul Lukas Released by Paramount Directed by Lloyd Corrigan Run time: 71 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “It’s pretty dull here in Palm Beach– unless you’re interested in marriage or divorce.” Penelope (Lombard) is a 22-year-old Read more
Kay Francis and George Brent do their best to lift this One Way Passage ripoff.
Paul Ossipoff Gene Raymond Anya Sorina Sari Maritza Prof. Marinoff Irving Pichel Released by Paramount Directed by Louis Gasnier and William Schorr Run time: 75 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film This is a film set in godless Communist Russia, so it’s kind of iffy what you could have Read more
Sally Leila Hyams Tom Reginald Denny role Lilian Bond Released by MGM Directed by Charles Reisner Run time: 73 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You were a blushing bride– and what blushes!” “Awright, I’ll go around without a stitch of clothes! Without a stitch of clothes! Like Lady Read more
Doris Blake Carole Lombard Jimmie Martin Chester Morris Ridgeway Cary Grant Released by Paramount Directed by Alexander Hall Run time: 69 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Lombard plays a clothing model who frequently strips down and hangs out in the dressing room. Doris Blake (Lombard) becomes a kept Read more
Dulce Morado Kay Francis Cassy Pringle Wallace Kay Johnson Dan Wallace Charles Bickford Tony Lewis Stone Tommy Dickie Moore Mrs. Harney Zasu Pitts Released by MGM Directed by William C. DeMille Run time: 78 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film Worried that she almost fell off a cliff, Dulce Read more
Millie Helen Twelvetrees Helen Lilyan Tashman Angie Joan Blondell Released by RKO Directed by John Francis Dillon Run time: 85 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film We’re introduced to Blondell and Tashman’s characters shacked up in bed together. Frank McHugh has a musical number (yes) about being a beautiful Read more
Letty Madge Evans Mrs. Sherwood Alice Brady Sherwood Otto Kruger Carol Una Merkel Mrs. Merrick May Robson Burt Barton Phillips Holmes Released by MGM Directed by Richard Boleslavsky Run time: 86 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “You know how divorces are.” “I’ve never been married.” “Not even once?!” Read more
Henry Barton Conway Tearle Elizabeth Hawtorn Natalie Moorhead Pearl Hope Marceline Day Released by Chesterfield Pictures Directed by Richard Thorpe Run time: 67 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film One of those films with breach of promise suits galore and mistresses on the side. The King Murder: Checkmate “What Read more